Word: volkswagen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week Stephan was all primed to take off on a vacation with his wife and 15-year-old son in his new Volkswagen. There was just one more chore to do before the fishing trip. A lot of old Russian shells had been fished out of Berlin's Havel River and brought to the police explosives site on the city's outskirts. To Stephan the job seemed routine. But as he unscrewed the fuse of a six-inch grenade, friction may have touched off a spark. The shell went up with a great explosion. When the smoke...
...Venice to take in Portofino, but where will that leave our two days in Zurich?" In Hannover, Heidelberg and Hamm, German mothers wrapped the last of huge piles of Butterbrote in waxed paper as their cantankerous and impatient offspring squabbled over who was to sit where in the family Volkswagen. Dutchmen and Danes by the thousands were leaving their lowland homes for a brief, refreshing holiday in Germany's nearby mountains. Mountain-bred Swiss were flocking to the gently rolling hill country of Lake Constance. Once again, the great seasonal migration was on, and all over Europe indefatigable optimists...
Puppet on a String. Giuffre's own compositions are written without the aid of an instrument-he just uses "the inner ear." They are often inspired by the green countryside that he and his fellow soloists roll through in their orange-and-brown Volkswagen bus, and written down in odd moments between performances. The results are unusually appealing, sometimes suggesting purposeful musical doodles, sometimes the dance of a rubber-jointed, graceful puppet on a string...
Most foreign-car fans still prefer a larger, roomier model, such as West Germany's Volkswagen, Britain's Hillman Minx. Looking for a share of this market, France's Renault is plumping its racy (up to 75 m.p.h.), efficient (43 miles per gallon), economical (from $1,645) Dauphine. For American tastes Renault splashed the Dauphine with chrome trim, bolstered it with reinforced bumpers. U.S. reaction has been warm. Dauphine found 3,970 U.S. buyers in the first half of 1957, and second-half sales are accelerating so fast that Renault is now sending 140 Dau-phines...
...change of mind is the soaring U.S. sales of small foreign cars, which may double in 1957 to 200,000 (about 4% of the total U.S. market). While steady inroads on U.S. low-cost models are being made by such foreign standouts as West Germany's Volkswagen, Ford and American Motors have also been cashing in. In the first four months of this year, British Ford sales in the U.S. hit 3,201 v. 717 in the same period last year. Sales of American Motors Corp.'s Metropolitan, made by Austin of England...